Eight Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers
1992 studio album by Various Artists
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Eight Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers is a Wipers tribute album released on Tim/Kerr in 1992.[1][2] The album was first released as a box set of 4 colored 7-inch records in a run of 10,000.[3][4] It helped to raise the profile of the independent label.[5]
| Eight Songs for Greg Sage and The Wipers | |
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| Studio album by Various Artists | |
| Released | 1992 |
| Genre | Punk rock |
| Label | Tim/Kerr |
| Producer | Slayer Hippy |
Nirvana recorded their cover of "Return of the Rat" after Geffen had reservations about including the band's cover of "D-7".[6] Hole recorded a cover of "Over the Edge".[7]
Fourteen Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers is the CD re-release of the album, expanded to include additional artist covers.[8][9]
Critical reception
Phoenix New Times praised "Up Front", calling it a "killer cut ... and a real firebomb of pure punk."[3] Vulture listed "Return of the Rat" as Nirvana's 55th best song (out of 72), writing: "Furious and loose, this is an incredibly faithful take on Sage’s version with just a little bit of its desperate, quivering edge lost in the process."[11]
Track listings
Original eight song track listing
- "Potential Suicide" (Napalm Beach)
- "Astro Cloud" (M99)
- "Return of the Rat" (Nirvana)
- "Up Front" (Poison Idea)
- "On the Run" (Dharma Bums)
- "I Don't Know What I Am/Mystery" (Crackerbash)
- "Over the Edge" (Hole)
- "Land of the Lost" (Whirlees)
Fourteen song re-release
- "Potential Suicide" (Napalm Beach)
- "Astro Cloud" (M99)
- "Return of the Rat" (Nirvana)
- "Up Front" (Poison Idea)
- "On the Run" (Dharma Bums)
- "I Don't Know What I Am/Mystery" (Crackerbash)
- "Over the Edge" (Hole)
- "Land of the Lost" (Whirlees)
- "Telepathic Love" (Nation of Ulysses)
- "No One Wants an Alien" (Honey)
- "Tragedy" (Hazel)
- "Alien Boy" (Calamity Jane)
- "Soul's Tongue" (Saliva Tree)
- "Pushing the Extreme" (Thurston Moore and Keith Nealy)